Evan,

Thanks for your reply. It makes a lot of common sense, however life is
not always linear and common sense doesn't always answer everything,
in fact:

1)
On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 at 10:55, Evan Leibovitch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Anyone advanced enough to be in this mailing list is not the target audience 
> for StartIT, indeed very far from it. StartIT is designed for those who are 
> looking for a first career, or a new career.

There are people like me who _did_ have a career in IT ages ago and
had to have a long break (due to either bad luck or their own fault)
and are trying to get back into the industry. They will have to start
basically from scratch because, as you know, recruiters are almost
always IT- or Open Source- illiterate and they have no clue of what to
make of your "open source evangelism" back 15-20 years ago. This quite
large group of unfortunate people will have to complete with new fresh
graduates with mickey mouse degrees from uni of nowhere and will
probably need something a bit more professional than whatever entry
level certification. Ok for the LPIC-{1,2,3}, but what the LPI needs
to offer is something a bit less Linux specific and more generally
Unix-oriented. I though the BSD Specialist was the answer but it turns
out it wasn't (see my previous posts).

2)
> It's quite correct that StartIT would probably do nothing for you or your 
> colleagues, you're already here with IT skills.

Again, wrong assumption (although in good faith), see point 1.

If I sound negative, it's because I am. It hurts when you think you
have skills but you can't prove them or build upon them, or maybe I
don't really have skills and am just overestimating myself.

--
Ottavio Caruso
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